ZipException: zip END header not found on POM dependency with Eclipse compiler

There is an impedance matching issue between Maven Compiler Plugin, plexus-compiler-eclipse, and eclipse.jdt.core. m-c-p adds POM dependency's POM file to classpath, which makes it through plexus-compiler-eclipse to JDT and that prints an exception ZipException: zip END header not found. Arguably, m-c-p should not be adding non-JAR, non-wildcard-directory path to classpath for the compiler.